Diagram of the Three-Layer World Structure

Behind the world we perceive lies a sequential structure.

This page organizes that structure into Three Layers and presents it as an Annual Cycle.

This is not a symbolic narrative.

It is a Structural Map for reading the movements of reality and consciousness.

Eight-Phase Annual Cycle of the Three-Layer World Structure

This diagram presents the Annual Cycle of the Three-Layer World Structure.
The upper center marks the Summer Solstice.
The lower center marks the Winter Solstice.

The right column represents the Descent Phase — a movement from Abstraction toward Consolidation within lived reality.
The left column represents the Ascent Phase — a movement in which constructed reality undergoes Activation and is gradually returned through Reabsorption into Abstraction.

Each section indicates the Dominant Layer of that phase and its characteristic Dynamics.

In this model, the Three Layers refer to:

Higher-Order Layer — the layer in which directions and tendencies exist before taking form.
Inner Mental Layer — the layer in which meaning, interpretation, and judgment take place within the individual.
Foundational Manifest Layer — the layer in which consolidated reality and lived events exist.

The upper row corresponds to the Higher-Order Layer,
the middle row to the Inner Mental Layer,
and the lower row to the Foundational Manifest Layer.

Beginning from the Summer Solstice at the upper center, the cycle proceeds clockwise.

The Three Layers are not hierarchical distinctions of value, but functional distinctions.

In experiential terms:

The Higher-Order Layer is the domain of Abstraction — not visible events themselves, but future possibilities and the Generative Substrate from which Blueprints arise.

The Inner Mental Layer is the interior of the individual — where thought, perception, and judgment are in motion.

The Foundational Manifest Layer is tangible reality — events and environments that are directly experienced. It includes accumulated past conditions, material circumstances, and memory.

The term Higher-Order does not indicate a physical location, but a structural distinction in degrees of abstraction.
It does not presuppose spiritual hierarchies or supernatural domains commonly described elsewhere.

Descent Phase

The upper three sections correspond to the Descent Phase.
During this period, the Generative Substrate within the Higher-Order Layer passes through the Inner Mental Layer and gradually undergoes Materialization into the Foundational Manifest Layer.

Beginning from the Summer Solstice and moving toward the Winter Solstice, the foundation of a new lived reality is constructed.

Descent — Higher-Order Layer

(A blueprint suspended in the sky)

At this stage, the formative blueprint that arose at the Summer Solstice exists without yet taking form.
It is not a concrete event, but the abstract blueprint of a reality that is yet to be constructed.

Descent — Inner Mental Layer

(Drawing the bow and taking aim)

The formative blueprint touches the interior of the individual and is adjusted in preparation for its translation into lived reality.
Interpretations and criteria of judgment are reorganized, and the configuration begins to take shape.

Descent — Foundational Manifest Layer

(A blueprint fixed to the ground by an arrow)

The adjustment concludes and the configuration reaches Consolidation.
Conditions and circumstances align, and the foundation of lived reality solidifies.

The Winter Solstice

(Construction of the Mechanical Clock with Moving Figures)

The Winter Solstice marks the Turning Point at which the Generative Substrate, brought down from the Higher-Order Layer through the Descent Phase, reaches completion in form.

The structure through which the future becomes lived reality is assembled within the Foundational Manifest Layer.

This is not merely the completion of gears.
Lived reality itself is constructed as a monumental Mechanical Clock with Moving Figures.

Environment, conditions, human arrangement, relationships —
all are assembled as Components for Activation.

It has not yet begun to move.
Yet the gears are already engaged.

The timing of events, human actions, and the emergence of intention during the Ascent Phase are Embedded within this structure.

And when the moment arrives, movement begins of its own accord.

The Winter Solstice is the moment at which the mechanism stands fully assembled.

Ascent Phase

The Ascent Phase is the period during which the Mechanical Clock with Moving Figures, completed at the Winter Solstice, enters Activation.

The constructed structure of lived reality begins to move, and events and actions Emerge at the surface.

The Ascent Phase is not a stage of creating something new.
It is the stage in which the mechanism that had already been completed comes into motion when its time arrives.

The upper three sections correspond to the Ascent Phase, progressing upward from the lower row.

Ascent — Foundational Manifest Layer

(The clock begins to operate)

The Mechanical Clock assembled at the Winter Solstice begins its Activation within lived reality.

Events arise, people act, and relationships shift.
Even occurrences that appear accidental unfold as part of this structure.

Ascent — Inner Mental Layer

(The loosening of Consolidation)

Events that occurred in the Foundational Manifest Layer influence the interior of the individual.

Values are unsettled, perception shifts, and understanding deepens.
Experience is translated into meaning.

The Inner Mental Layer begins to Process the mechanism that has moved within lived reality.

Ascent — Higher-Order Layer

(Dismantling and Reabsorption)

Structures that have fulfilled their role undergo Dismantling.

Events and experiences are returned through Reabsorption into Abstraction, becoming material for the next Blueprint.

The Summer Solstice

(Generation of the Blueprint)

The Summer Solstice marks the Turning Point at which experiences and events that have undergone Dismantling and Reabsorption into Abstraction during the Ascent Phase give rise to a new Generative Substrate.

The Blueprint generated here does not emerge from emptiness.

It reflects events that occurred within the Foundational Manifest Layer and transformations that were Processed within the Inner Mental Layer.

It is the blueprint for the next future.

The Summer Solstice is the moment at which a new design, informed by the Foundational Manifest Layer, comes into being.

Here, one Full Cycle is completed.
The structure re-enters the Descent Phase.

Annual Configuration Map

The map above is a detailed configuration that applies the Eight-Phase Annual Cycle of the Three-Layer World Structure to a concrete yearly arrangement.

This configuration begins immediately after the Winter Solstice and follows the structure starting from the Ascent — Foundational Manifest Layer.

Phase Structure

(Structured according to the traditional Japanese lunar calendar. Solar months are approximate reference only.)

1. Ascent — Foundational Manifest Layer
Shiwasu — 12th lunar month
Mutsuki — 1st lunar month
(approximately January–February in the solar calendar)

2. Ascent — Inner Mental Layer
Kisaragi — 2nd lunar month
Yayoi — 3rd lunar month
(approx. March–April)

3. Ascent — Higher-Order Layer
Uzuki — 4th lunar month
Satsuki — 5th lunar month
(approx. May–June)

4. Descent — Higher-Order Layer
Minazuki — 6th lunar month
Fumizuki — 7th lunar month
(approx. July–August)

5. Descent — Inner Mental Layer
Hazuki — 8th lunar month
Nagatsuki — 9th lunar month
(approx. September–October)

6. Descent — Foundational Manifest Layer
Kannazuki — 10th lunar month
Shimotsuki — 11th lunar month
(approx. November–December)

Each Phase transitions at the timing of the New Moon.
The structural mechanism of this transition is examined in detail in the chapter on the Lunar Cycle.

Each Phase contains two lunar months.

The traditional Japanese lunar calendar is based on the phases of the Moon.
For this reason, the divisions are more clearly understood when viewed through the lunar calendar framework.
The months listed in parentheses indicate their approximate correspondence within the modern solar calendar.

Because the lunar calendar is based on the synodic lunar cycle (approximately 29.5 days), it does not align precisely with the solar year or seasonal divisions.
A lunar year of twelve months is approximately eleven days shorter than a solar year.
As a result, the lunar months drift forward each year relative to the solar calendar.

This forward drift is not merely a calendrical discrepancy.
The rhythm of divergence and correction itself forms part of the Cyclical Structure.

In the current calendrical system, a Leap Month is inserted in order to reconcile this difference.
The Leap Month functions as a calendrical adjustment and does not itself generate structural change.

However, because accumulated drift corresponds to specific points of Structural Emergence, it becomes an observable indicator within the cycle.

Example: Descent Phase after the Summer Solstice (2025)

June 25, 2025 — Minazuki — Descent, Higher-Order Layer
July 25, 2025 — Leap Minazuki — Descent, Higher-Order Layer
August 23, 2025 — Fumizuki — Descent, Inner Mental Layer
September 22, 2025 — Hazuki — Descent, Inner Mental Layer
October 21, 2025 — Nagatsuki — Descent, Foundational Manifest Layer
November 20, 2025 — Kannazuki — Descent, Foundational Manifest Layer
December 20, 2025 — Shimotsuki — Structural Interval

As accumulated drift increases from year to year, a Structural Interval may arise before the next Summer Solstice or Winter Solstice.

This interval is not a byproduct of calendar correction.
It marks the position at which accumulated divergence reaches Structural Emergence.

The structure of accumulated drift and its cyclical manifestation will be further examined in the next chapter on the 19-Year Cycle Model, where its specific points and forms of appearance are identified.

Position of This Chapter

The Three-Layer Structure and the Annual Cycle presented here describe a Common Structural Pattern shared by all.

While individual events and subjective experiences differ, the cycle of Construction and Activation itself follows the same underlying structure.

What is presented in this chapter is a model that organizes this temporal structure.

The processes and individual cases that led to its formulation are extensive, but they are not the subject of this site.

This site does not aim to document personal processes or facilitate discussion.
It presents only the structured model itself.

The following concepts introduced in this chapter serve as foundational distinctions for the chapters that follow:

Higher-Order Layer — the abstract layer in which future possibilities and the Generative Substrate exist
Inner Mental Layer — the interior layer of the individual where meaning and judgment take place
Foundational Manifest Layer — the layer of tangible reality in which events and environments appear
Descent Phase — the period in which design undergoes Materialization and the foundation of lived reality is constructed
The Winter Solstice — the Turning Point at which the structure reaches completion and the mechanism stands assembled
Ascent Phase — the period in which the completed structure enters Activation and experience returns through Reabsorption into Abstraction
The Summer Solstice — the Turning Point at which a new design reflecting the Foundational Manifest Layer is generate

The following chapters expand upon this structure into the Lunar Cycle and the 19-Year Cycle Model.

The structure presented here is not a theory for predicting events.

It is a Structural Map for recognizing which phase reality currently occupies.

Time is not uniform.
It contains phases of Construction and phases of Activation.

To understand this cycle is to alter one’s relationship with time itself.

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